Liverpool suffered a shock 2-1 loss to Leeds United after Dutch winger Crysencio Summerville’s 89th minute strike of their Premier League conflict at Anfield on Saturday that took the guests out of the relegation zone.
The Reds’ first top-flight dwelling defeat in 30 video games follows final week’s loss at backside facet Nottingham Forest and additional deepens the disaster across the struggling Merseyside membership, who’re ninth within the desk on 16 factors after 12 video games.
The win takes Leeds as much as fifteenth on 12 factors. Liverpool acquired off to a different disastrous begin after 4 minutes when Joe Gomez performed a blind backpass to Alisson who had moved out of his objective and slipped, leaving a gaping area for Rodrigo to run in and faucet the ball into the empty web.
Mohamed Salah levelled for Liverpool 10 minutes later when Andy Robertson crossed for the Egyptian worldwide to hook a volley into the web from shut vary, igniting the Liverpool supporters as their crew started the chase for a winner.
Leeds continued to threaten on the break, although, and Brenden Aaronson nearly put them again in entrance a couple of minutes later, assembly Rasmus Kristensen’s cross from the appropriate with a deft volley that cannoned off the crossbar.
Leeds French keeper Illan Meslier saved his facet within the recreation nearly single-handedly within the second half, pulling off an excellent save from Darwin Nunez in a one-on-one after 67 minutes after which clawing away a shot from the identical participant 11 minutes later.
Meslier’s saves set the scene for Summerville to steal the three factors with a last-gasp poacher’s end.
On the eve of his twenty first birthday, the ahead snapped up a ball within the field from Patrick Bamford and shortly pulled the set off, firing throughout Alisson into the web.
It was Leeds’ first away win of the season and a primary league loss for Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk at Anfield since he signed for Liverpool in January 2018.
“It is an enormous second for me and my household,” Summerville instructed Sky Sports activities. “Scoring at Anfield is an enormous second for me. It went so fast … once you’re within the field, you must assume shortly. It simply occurred.”
Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp is in little question about what he expects of his under-performing facet. “We have now to combat and that’s what we should do,” he stated.